Happy Sanguinala to everybody, dear neckbeards. Or at least, it will be soon! In the name of the Adeptus Terra, I say that lets use this moment to be friendly between brothers, and lets just be comfy.

And to remember the great sacrifice that the great Sanguinius did in its famous last stand against the Arch-traitor, and so the great effort that their sons, the Blood Angels, do to prevent "Non-autorished accidents". So its important to make the population conscious of the grave problem that its the Red Thirts, and its consequences. And no, dear citizen, the Blood Angels doesnt have a "Black Rage" or worse thing, that Chaos propaganda, or just bad rumors by dumb people scared of them. To think otherwise is heresy, and it punishment is high!

Luckily, A new animated series starring the Blood Angels is being made now, so lets see if with this there will be more animated series & movies (That are good, and arent Ultramarine-Tier)

Speaking of titans, fucking hell. I was close to preordering pic related, but somehow forgot about it. So I just headed over to the BL page and looked up the sample chapter...

>The First Huntress

>There was wind upon her skin.

>The breeze was a memory, but it felt real all the same. Life in the tank blurred the past into the present. What was and what had been existed in the same moment for her. Her life had become one long book to be browsed at will, so it did not seem so very strange to smell the animal scents of the mega-herds on the breeze, even though for over a century all she had smelled, tasted and felt was blood-warm amnion. At one and the same time Mohana Mankata Vi was entrapped in the skull of Luxor Invictoria, and she was astride her mount, Hamaj, and she was a sleeping child. She was telling the story of the day the Legio was born to a class of her daughters on Tigris. She was young. She was old.

FUCK THIS. I just want to pop a beer, scratch my balls and read about giant gothic mechs shooting each other up, to enjoy one of the few remaining western franchises not completely pozzed to hell. But nope, can't have that. Here, have some shitskin woman in a Titan reminiscing about the day she shewed everyone what a stronk independent womyn she is by winning a race against knights on a horse.

This book is supposed to be about the greatest titan battle in the history of the imperium, and THIS is how this faggot author decide to open it up. Please excuse me while I wash this bad taste out of my mouth with some 80s mecha anime. Or bleach, that would do the trick.

I've played it in a oneshot, and it's fun. Lacks material, right now you can pretty much just play the most baseline characters of the Imperium, plus maybe an Ork or an Eldar. It's good, just needs more material for it to be really, really fun.

Gameplay is organized into Tiers 1-5, which just deteriermines starting point investment for characters, and a flat bonus that is added to most things. Rank 1 is basically Only War, Tiers 2-3 is Dark Heresy, while Tier 3-4 is more like Deathwatch.

System uses d6 dicepool system. You roll Stat + Skill number of dice, which, at tier 3, usually comes out to be 8-9 dice for your best skills. 4 and 5 on the dice are +1 Success, 6 is +2 and can be shifted in combat. You total successes trying to hit a Target number for difficulty, attackers winning ties. You have one off-color d6 you always roll as part of your total number of dice(if you're rolling 6 dice, then that's 1 red dice, and 5 blue). If the red dice rolls a 1 or a 6, they count as a narrative bonus or complication, or in combat they can confirm critical hits on a 6.

Combat is fairly simple. Move Action, Action, plus free actions, with various abilities being able to modify which actions can be classified as such. You roll a combat skill, see if you get enough successes against your opponent's Defense. Then you roll damage. any 6's leftover after you succeed on a hit are shifted, which means you roll that many d6 in addition to your weapon's damage. This is usually a flat number, plus a d6. For example, a Bolter Rifle is 10+1 Extra Dice. This number is subtracted from the Armor Stat, and anything leftover does damage to your opponent. Weapons also have traits such as Armor Piercing, etc, that modify their damage and crits.

Overall feels like a pretty good representation of 40k in RPG format without being excessively complex, or too sparse. Just needs more character options, and more material for GMs to use.

Also, looking through the other books, Warlord and Gates of the Devourer also has a female princeps as the MC, while Titanicus, the Titan comic and Imperator seems to be normal. Are there any other books explicitly about Titans?

Do you have a favorite Space Marine First Foundation chapter or a list of preference? In my case when about loyalist, its hard to say a favorite, and this can change, although now I can say im between Raven Guard, Space Wolfs, Blood Angels as first, with either Imperial Fists & Ultramarines as second or also very well liked; Least liked or interested is between Iron Hands & Salamanders. I like Space Marine armies to be fast deployed, heavy hitting, and always ready for melee (Not precisely exclusive), so thats why im between said three armies: Raven Guard can be too stealthy for my tastes, but I love style, tactics & beakies; Blood Angels are gods at Drop deployment, fast assault, and have Death Companies; While Space Wolves are a more simple but still awesome army with good aesthetics.

Imperial Fist is more different and more defensive & vanilla, but thats why I like them too, because when not at the offensive good to have a more normal & shooty faction. Ultramarines, memes aside,I like them, it just that its annoying to see them every time, that is true.

About traitor chapters, its hard for me to say about favorites, maybe I can say that World Eater are the one I have least interest, but hard to say a favorite one.

I love the Black Templars but cannot stand painting fucking black armor as it is nothing but retarded ass edge hightlighing. The Salamanders just have a derpy color scheme to me, it will never look cool in my eyes even though I love the lore.

I was thinking about painting my Primaris to be Flesh Tearers however the lore prevents me from doing so. Plus the colors are not well suited to tanks.

Headcanon time. Besides the 3 new organs primaris marines are just a throwback to great crusade/heresy era space marines. Marines have been getting smaller and weaker over the millennia due to degradation of the DNA in their gene seeds. Primaris marines are larger and stronger because their gene seeds are more pure and 30k marines were also larger than 40k marines

IIRC in most of the writings contemporary marines were described as being 7'0"-7'6" with some odd balls being taller. In the Horus heresy novels we regularly see marines that are 8 foot or taller. I remember some author joked that marines seem to keep getting bigger, probably just BL authors trying to one up each other. If I was in charge of writing a codex I'd do a necron tier retcon and just say that the primaris marines are just genetically pure marines with some new equipment.

The switch to realscale is going to get weirder and weirder and at some point they're going to have to stop excusing it with 'lore'; the newest Eldrad figure is damn near a third bigger than a typical Eldar guardian measured head to foot.

I just saw this video recently, and the guy explains that, although Primaris Marines are a good concept, they are placed wrong & badly in the game/setting. And he thinks that the Primaris Space Marines should have been a Chaos thing from the beginning.

After all, The ones who have been interested into making new/better soldier, more than Space marines, have always been guys like Fabius Bile, Honsou, and other Chaos guys.

So shouldnt the Primaris Marines be a new weapon fitting to be released for the 13th Black Crusade? While the Imperium just have Guilliman back, and maybe new tech from Belisarius Cawl, Chaos, besides a successful Black Crusade, would start having a way to replace its forces (With better ones!) in a steady way; With only whatever Primaris renegades, or Primaris gene-seed stolen from Chaos, as Primaris Loyalist for the Imperium.

Hell, precisely Primaris Marines would be really fitting for Iron Warriors (and other non-Chaos heavy traitor legions). Imagine a horde of Iron Giants with huge guns, and imparable. Would be good to have something not too mutated or Warped in the Chaos faction instead of Chaos-specific stuff, and daemons.

I usually just go with most people and say that Primaris Marines are really just what Spess Mehrines were like back in the day, with a purer gene-seed stock. Millenia of DNA atrophy slowly reduced marines to their current state, and Guilliman provided the necessary material to revitalize that stock.

That'd be neat, but the imperium would have to be pretty desparate to try reverse engineering something by the forces of chaos. Like the fall of Cadia to a legion of primaris chaos marines in the 13th black crusade.

However, the space marines are the foundation of GW's business: if they change them in any major way it could be catastrophic for them. So instead what they did was they released a "new" type of space marines, Primaris, in order to test the waters/get people used to the idea of new truescale power armour.

What I hope is that they retcon Primaris stuff entirely in the future, because it's gay, and just pretend that the models are normal space marines and space marines were always like that.

Power armour has always looked goofy, Terminator armour even more so, in terms of how the guy is supposed to fit inside it and how he's expected to move around with the giant shoulder pads and backpack getting in the way. It's about time they were updated. I hope they do Terminators too.

What? Really? I need source for that, because I cant believe that a movie that would have Inquisitors and GREY KNIGHTS (you know, superior psiquick astartes!) Would be cancelled because it had to have a bunch of normal space marines!

Shit-posting aside; I always read about how "most" groups have made their own Inquisitor/Necromunda hybrid of a 4k game, yet I have never seen such a thing. Tell me, what would a Narrative focused 40k be like? I'm not talking about advancing the story line or shit like that, but like a typical rpg. Like having your independent models gain xp and you keep track of their injuries. Or if squads would level up and actually reflect their status as veterns? Of course all of this wouldn't just be a single game you could crank-out in an afternoon, more like a campaign. Except you could take your army from one group/session and have it fight another army from a different session/group.

I recall a short story where a Khorne berserker saw Kharn coming towards him and let Kharn cut his head rather than fight back, because he knew that his blood and skull would go to Khorne. I think as long blood flows, Khorne's happy, though he prefers some methods more than others.

Maybe vidya related, but I want to try Chapter Master, but for starters, im not sure I installed it well, because I cant see the marine when choosing the heraldry/colors for a custom Chapter, although everything else works well. Also, where/how I can put more icons/images to amplify the options available?

Over the course of the holidays I some how got 4 helverins added to my knight castellan. I'm a chaos player and want to put these expensive models to use so I was thinking of finishing off the list with 2 knight gallant. I don't want to add more than 4 armigers and I would appreciate any ideas for a chaos knight house list.

It's more of a tan really, but I want something grounded in where they are from. All three colors of their armor represent something of their Fortress world. The tan is the same color as the ramparts and fortresses, the light blue the unpolluted sky (Industry is deep underground), and the dark purple the banners that hang everywhere made from local silk. The banners are similar to what the Nazi's did, but much, much larger in scale.

You know. Now that I think about it, is there any homebrewed IG,Space Marine or Tempestus army based in either Third Reich, or any fascistic european army/nation? Like a Tempestus Scion bassen in the Waffen SS or a Space Marine chapter based in the Thule Order, or an IG regiment based in the Romanian Iron Guard. There are a lot of X thing..IN SPESSH! in 40K, but cant se anything similar. Its just not being redpilled, is that I cant find anything like that.

THE HERETICAL MUSEUM OF V.A. BEAU is an armoury book about dumb weeb shit, specifically weapon and equipment rules for weapons and equipment from a variety of manga, anime and Jap video games.

So far all version 0.1 has is equipment from Bloodborne, Re:Creators and RWBY, but it will hopefully grow to include so, so much more. So if you want almost 50 different weapons with a flimsy framing narrative holding them all together...

I'm actually liking the new cult models, particularly the bikers and that leader chick. It gives me some hope for the future. Not entirely sure how I feel about the ambots, they almost feel like they come from a different game.

Went to WHW, shit was packed more than its ever been and boy was shit active. actual game devs and painting tutors walking around giving tips, hosting things about how to make dioramas and a nice number of exclusive items and sales. Got me the one day only nighthaunt (yeah its AoS but it was cooler than a fucking primaris blueberry fuck you) along with a new box for some nighthaunt units £10 off so £15 for whats 4 £10 boxes and a mat along with a new shark for my deepkin which apparently are super strong in AoS right now?

Sad part was talking to designers and asked about battlefleet gothic and was told "to start that over from scratch we would basically have to stop all over specialist titles for 2 years so its not in the works" but he also said "now in terms of specialist games maybe a great city from the old world vanished and thousands of years later its followed the worlds core and will appear in the realm of twilight" so cheeky cunt is saying mordheim wasn't destroyed but got lost in time and space and now its coming back. Probably when shadespire exlodes.

Guess it's the Black Legion's time to shine after all the love the Death Guard got. Do you think they're going to go through and give attention to the other legions, or are they going to be ignored like usual?

Well they confirmed that the Slaanesh in AoS and 40k is the same entity and he/she/it is breaking out soon and thats why there are new demons coming out. With the Noise Marine showing up i imagine thousands sons will be left on the back burner with khorne this year.

Fuck Khorne. Yes i said it. They are the most overplayed fucking thing. They are angry beserkers that worship bloodshed. Its fucking done. They are slightly more lame than Black Legion, the nega Blueberries.

I do think the same. Too bad that GW only thinks of Slanessh stuff as just putting boobs, and being half-naked to a faction, instead of being more than that. Slanessh and Tzeench being gods of degenerancy, pure Chaos, complot, and distruption, should be the highest & more dangerous Chaos Gods to mankind. But instead we had Khorne mania in the early period of the game, and now Nurgle is Games Workshop Chaos Star.

I'd kill for stuff for the other legions, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. If they release Angron and Fulgrim along with codex EC and WE, then we might see more. Waht I want though is for CSM to get 95% of what they could get/use in HH just to compete with the Primaris shit

Aren't most of their small arms basically just autoguns and stubbers anyways? I'm steering away from doing a mecha book because this is supposed to be a fun, easy side project and I don't want to get bogged down in designing new systems for giant robots.

>LOGH

If you can find me more detailed technical info on the weapons and power armour used in-universe then sign me the fuck up.

What is everyone working on right now? I found a land raider at a local flee market missing its heavy bolter turret and the treads. I managed to make a heavy bolter tripod out of some square bits and a defiler heavy bolter side arm, and then I covered it up with some armor bits on the front. The treads I replaced with some cut tape measure and some rhino tread bits over that, and it looks ok. I still need to paint over it to truly see how it would look, but it is hard to beat something like this for only 18 dollars.

Painting, and a Javelin Attack Speeder. I still haven't gotten the base coat on my dreadclaws and then I still have to base everything. Meanwhile all the gun arms for my dread are fucked because I put the magnet in the wrong way.

Trying not to buy more recasts until I at least assemble what I have. Painting my CSM, which is going slowly due to procrastination and bad lighting. Assembling models. Began thinking of a campaign based around my renegade chapter.

I still don't understand the point of funkoshit. They look pretty bad and bland, yet people still buy tge damn things up.

I have some friends that have a collection of them. They only took one or two out of the boxes and keep the rest inside. I showed them some of the figurines I got and they liked the details of those. Hell, they could get a decent figure if they chose not to buy a few boxes of funko.

It bears repeating, that if one has failed one's ancestors and the very calling of nature, and you find yourself in a situation wherein all your means are freely available to squander on plastic effigies instead of securing the future of your bloodline, you can at least do so with a modicum of style.

Why declare to all audience that you are a mindless NPC with your shelves full of soulless, debased funko-pops, that you have no sense of beauty or appreciation of art and exist solely to throw your resources at whatever trinkets our spiritual enemies cobble up for whichever Hollywood abomination is in vogue at the time?

I struggle to even conceptualise the mind of one that would willingly do so when instead they could drop 20k yen on a top quality 1/7 waifu figure and show everyone their deep and principled understanding of the metaphysical ideals of æstethics. I am increasingly forced to believe that such people, if one can even call them by such a lofty term, indeed have no real mind of their own, being mere husks and ontological nonentities without any sort of anima to tether them to the world of ideals, whether chthonic or solar.

Truly, if it ever becomes known to me that any of my acquaintances own but a single funko, I will have to insist they perform a ritual cleansing before stepping as much as a toe into my temple of æstethic indulgence. That is, if I would even allow them in at all.

I propose that we strive to catalogue each and every one that ever willingly purchase a funko, so that they and their descendants can be marked for culling or peasant serfdom when the Autistocracy finally ascends to restore the balance to this horrendous world.

Figurines, particularly the ones in the 25-35 mm range, are too small to be easily seen on a shelf. The funkopop things are much larger, usually more colorful without having to sit down and paint them, and signal nerdhood with minimal effort. Put yourself in the shoes of the shallow Funkopop purchaser for a moment and imagine trying to show your friends that you're geekchic with a handpainted IG army worth a thousand points. Now imagine how much easier it would be if you tried it with six or seven different Deadpools, two Reys, and a couple of Harry Potter themed lumps of silicon/plastic/whatever that crap is.

I used to call it peacocking, before I realized how accurate it is to the phenomenon. Some people actually do try to use this sort of thing to attract the opposite sex.

I kind of figured. His infamy is over 100, so he has a good amount of pull and resources. Almost enough to rival some of the named chaos champions. He is nowhere near a great combat character. He is a complete social Slanaash guy, so I don' think it would work either. We do have a level 10 psyker on the team, but he has little characteristic advancements.

It goes even beyond that since he also fucked with harlequins, Grey knights, some space marine chapters, and even custodes near the end of this campaign. He has stacked so many good bonuses to every social check that it gets either funny or aggravatingly broken at times.

He likens himself to a playwriter who loves tragedies and irony more than anything else. He tried to criticize a death jester on how to act before. He managed to lie and convince a decent number of marines that their captain was a traitor and the source of the chaos incursion with such a convincing tale they got inspired by him. He is a mortal too. He got up on a perch somewhere to hide and drink wine while it happened and then backstabbed the survivors to sacrifice them to summon a keeper of secrets.

If you have 100+ high quality waifu figures, you might be a hopeless weeb that will never procreate, but you also have a objectively impressive collection of art that show off your wealth. If you have 100+ Funko pops, you-re just a bugan with no taste.

Esha snapped back into her body. The power of the Machine-God slammed into her. She arched her back and cried out with pleasure that edged into pain. Notification chimes sang joyfully all over the cockpit. 'Domine has woken!' shouted Mephani Ohana, possessed by the machine's eagerness to fight. 'We're ready!' 'A little more respect - use the correct cant,' said someone. The tone was snappy, like Yeha. But it didn't sound like her, and the words were slurred. Esha, in her new state of ecstasy, could not tell who had spoken.

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Esha's back relaxed. She sank into her chair with a groan. Domine Ex Venari shared her pleasure; metal squealed as the Titan shifted in the restraints of its maintenance cradle.

Alpha legionaries were unironically the best Astartes. They were the assassinorum before the assassinorum. There are several instances of single Alpha legionnaires going John Wick on entire squads of marines. Fuck the space corgis, the Alpha Legion were the real executioners.

There seems to be conflicting accounts as to whether they're loud or quiet, and I'm not sure what exactly a heat beam weapon does differently to a laser. Lasers in 40k are weak, if they're smaller than a Lascannon.

I had my first real battle with my Chaos marines today and lost. I think 2 things lost me the battle: I fielded too many big models and spent too much time shooting the dreadnought.

Battle started with me advancing forward with my maulerfiend and cultists. I moved my hellwright and decimator into position behind the building. My Chaos marines stood in the trench and my forgefiend moved up a tiny bit. I used my Decimator and Hellwright to kill 3 scouts with snipers on the building as I was afraid of them picking off my HQ right away. My forgefiend shot at the dreadnought. Opponent raped my maulerfiend AND my cultists his first turn. He moved up with his tacticals and the dreadnought came up behind them. Spent the next turn shooting at his dreadnought, did jack shit. CSM shoot one of the tactical squads and brings it down to only the Sargent. Sargent charged and punched my decimator to death. Other tactical team melta'd my hellwright into dust and raped my CSM. Called it when I only had my forgefiend left. He lost a tactical squad and a scout squad.

The main problem is that you focused on the dreadnought and moved your guys a little to aggressively first turn. What type of dreadnought was it? They can be huge and cheap distractions Having a lot of vehicles is ok if you mix in both anti-vehicle and anti-horde options. Having all vehicles is not a complete meta strategy though except for certain lists or factions. Examples being ork walker lists being fun and decent alongside tank companies.

Using the fire power you did to take down snipers also may have been a bad move since it could have taken down those special weapon squads, as those get very dangerous. If you are worried about your hq, you can put him in a transport.

My forgefiend had the Heavy 4 hades autocannons and my decimater had Heavy 4 Butcher cannon and Assault 5 storm laser. I think either of them could be used to take out infantry if needed. I was really hoping my maulerfiend and cultists would have done the job though.

It is good you focused on the dreadnought then, as that is something worth focusing on with a list like yours. You might have had a better time with at least a lascannon or multi-melta thrown in for good measure. You might have wanted to focus on the tactical squads first before the snipers still, especially if the ones with melta guns got that close to you.

So, I'm thinking of getting into 40k, and more specifically into Orks, and realize I'm probably going to need to buy a lot of models. Where do I start as far as looking into pricing, what kind of units I want to buy in bulk, what ones I want to buy so I can Kitbash, etc?

Not sure where I want to start as far as building an Army. I know I want to be able to take down Girlyman if anyone runs him, and maybe I'd like to run Ghazghull if I can afford his point cost.

I suppose what I want most is a good generalized army that will give any army I'm likely to face at 1000-2000 pts at least a good challenge and is able to mostly adapt to any situation they're thrown at if I choose the right strats or Kultures.

Ebay is your best friend. Ghazghull is an ok model, but his point cost is massive for what he himself can do. Bikes are terrible for orks this edition, and that is a shame since I used to run a lot of them, but the Defftrike is actually a decent model if you run a vehicle or stormboy heavy army.

Stormboys are pretty good this edition. and kommandos are a decent pick as well if a little fragile from morale. If you do take kommandos, remember to take the index specials weapon options. Having a few kan squads is always nice since it is east to underestimate their shooting and even their melee. Deff dreads make great distraction carnifexes this time around. Battlewagons are only there to hold your lootas, tankbustas, nobz, and flashgits. The only thing really worth taking with them is a deffrolla and four big shootas.

For other choices, the only planes worth taking are dakkjets and those bik mek jets are worht taking. For buggies, the best option right now are the scrapjets. The shokkjumps are also ok, but every other new buggy choice is worthless. The old index rokket buggies, big shoota buggies, and skorcha buggies are ok as distractions and are decently cheap. Big guns and gretchin squads are solid this time around, but don't keep havign a ton of them when you can have some more boyz.

Thanks. Ghazzy isn't a hard point, so I think I'll drop him in favor of having some unique Warbosses and Big Meks, though I'm not too big a fan of the Mega Armour variant, Orks already look Bulky enough as is. Same problem with Ghazzy.

Actually, for my main unit, I'm probably going to look for something with less armor. I like the idea of a musclebound Ork with a Powerklaw, and no upper Armor similar to pics, except standing straight up in contrast to being hunched like most Orks.

Megabosses are only able to be used with the index sadly, but they are not the greatest thing this edition since you can get so many cheapass warbosses with big choppas. Having a lot of detachments is a good thing, so keep that in mind.

What klan do you want? All of them have upsides and are worth considering. The best part about orks is that kitbashing, so do that if you think you can. I have an eldar tank and some old toy all converted to be battlwagons. I also have a hellbrute turned into a deffdread, and I have a heldrake I turned into some biker ork driving a meked up daemon engine I treat as a wazbom.

I forgot to mention, but both morkanauts and gorkanauts are pretty good this edition and worth considering.

If you want a fun ork conversion idea, you could do what someone did at my local game store. He took the boss from the defftrike kit and turned it into Gitshiro, a master of the ork martial art Orkydo killakan.

I'm probably going to do a custom Klan name, really try and make /mydudes/ out of this army, but Blood Axes and Death Skulls seem to be the two I want most. Orks are mostly Melee focused, so TAKTIKS seems good for approach, while Lucky Blue Gitz seems to be almost as useful, but more versatile, and Dis is Ours! Zog Off! seems vital if I join the Campaign my FLGS is starting, though that depends on the type of match played.

Both of those are great. If your doing a more walker heavy army, than Deathskullz are essential. Blood axes are also great as well if you have a slightly more shooty army but still want some melee benefits.

It was a 750 point game so I didn't have much wiggle room for adding in another big gun. I'd have to sacrifice my cultists for a helbrute with a multimelta, but then I would be left with only large models. Plus my cultists are the only models I have painted so far.

I've found the lasher tendrils do nice against infantry most of the time.

I was mostly thinking that I would try and create a Green Tide army, where the principle power is a large number of models per unit, and the main focus for other units is to have Auras or Psyker abilities like Warpath to boost each unit into a huge hordeforce, so the end result is having a bunch of Boyz use every +1 and Re-roll they're granted to curbstomp whatever I target them with.

With that idea you might want to go goffs or deathskulls. Those re-rolls can only be used one per unit though, so keep that in mind. Another good choice for footslogging and also using weirdboyz is Evil Suns. Evil Sunz are great on making charges after teleports and those extra movement benefits alongside assault weapons being usable is great.

You sound like me, except my downfall was being stuck as attacker with my mostly gunline specked Iron Warriors. That and I went up against a guy who brought Marines and Knights against me, who's heaviest models are two Predators, a Maulerfiend, and a Las/Missile Helbrute. I guess it was just my luck, though trying to footslog my Marines up the field also wasnt a good idea. I've been collecting some Slaanesh daemons to act as vanguard, tying up the enemy while my CSM walk up the field. Though if that fails i'll probably have to invest in some Rhinos.

I've done it /tg/! I've defeated the pain glove sadists with my Chaos marines. Basically the same map as before but with more ruins instead of trees. I used the same units as before, but kept my cultists and maulerfiend off to the right behind the tall building. Maulerfiend took out 2 squads of 5 intercessors and a Primaris captain in gravis. Cultists got caught off guard by a Reiver squad jumping in behind them. Used Tide of Traitors and popped them in behind what was left of the enemy forces hiding in the ruins where the top left tree was. Thanks to Tide of Traitors the only model in my dead pile was a marine that got hit by a lucky shot.

I found out one thing I was doing wrong yesterday. I was only shooting one hades autocannon on my forgefiend. I feel retarded.

She's actually a Porc-Orc abhuman, if she lifted her hair you'd see her pig ears, complete with a ear-tag. Of course, she has a specially designed armour to account for her giant belly, multiple breasts and a hole for her piggy-tail.

But man, I hope they have ten Sallet heads in the box now, beside those, only the two first ones and the gasmask version look decent.

We have had one model out of every human box either be a fucking nog or a woman as of late. The shitty fucking kids books are all nogs and other mystery meat flavors of “humans” who are abosolutely heretical.

Then you have that shitty web comic roll models which has le stronk female black stormcast front and center. You know they are going to POZ the absolute hell out of the sisters and there is nothing we can so about it.

You really think they are going to include an asian? To the left they are practically white even if they are full on buck toothed and straw hat wearing rice farmers out of cambodia.

Just realized that I will never have my proper space mogolians because GW is too busy BLACKEDing the fucking european types like the Space Romans and the Space Prussian Line Infantry before they even consider putting actual love and effort into the best fucking Legion.You all know what is best in life.To ride with the Khan.

At least we can just refuse to paint any niggers at all, and not buy any books featuring niggers. The only dark skinned models I've ever painted is beastmen, because along with Orks, they are the actual in-universe representation of niggers.

Good God the primaris look fucking weird now I've finally seen some on a table. Not only are they completely out of scale with their own faction but they're completely out of scale with everyone else's too, they look like they're from a completely different game, like cheap Chinese knockoff action figures that have been re-painted to use as expy's. What are they 33mm Realscale? I think I'm gonna stay in 40k, 41k is too weird for me. Bizarrely I feel sort of tempted to hop on to ebay and start up a nice small, maybe 500pt, 2nd edition era Oldhammer 40k army.

Guilliman is making the imperium great again, the eldar are trying to stop being such pansies, chaos is pozzing half the galaxy (specially the tau) necrons and tyranids are taking a break, deldar are striking a deal with the imperium to fix the golden throne, and thats about it.

After Abaddon destroyed Cadia, something called the Cicatrix Maledictum appeared which is like a giant warp storm that separated the galaxy into 2, it also blocks the Astronomicon. Guilliman was healed of the wound that Fulgrim inflicted on him, by Eldar and Mechanicus guys.

In this case the Eldar responsible are also trying to create the god of death Ynnead which they hope will finally kill Slaanesh.

The Mechanicus guy is basically a Gary Stu who never previously appeared in the background called Belisarius Cawl. He had been tasked for 10k years by Guilliman himself to create the next generation of space marines, in short to improve upon the Emperor's work in creating the Astartes (which is complete and utter heresy and if this wasn't lore rape the Inquisition or the Mechanicus themselves would have immediately annihilated him).

These 2 combine eldar witch nonsense with a magic thing created by Cawl called the Armour of Fate which cured Guilliman of Fulgrim's poz.

Guilliman then undertook the Indomitus Crusade which was supplied by Cawl who just so happened to have tens of thousands of Primaris Numarines stowed away in his ship. They get lost in the warp, they get captured by chaos (the entire army gets captured but not killed or sacrificed), escape, go through the webway followed by Ahriman, end up on the Moon, then Guilliman goes to meet the Emperor offscreen.

After that, mostly what happens is that every Chapter now has access to the Numarines. The eldar and the mech guy fuck off back where they came from. Guilliman becomes de facto ruler of the Imperium.

+Harlequins are setting the stage for Slaanesh to have an 'oh SHIT' moment and start fighting for Aeldari survival.

+Eldar awoke god of death Ynnead, started calling themselves their old fashioned pre-fall 'Aeldari' name.

+Orks are showing signs of breaking through another tech level, starting to act like they did during the Great Crusade/War of the Beast. For comparison the warbosses of the WotB were bigger than dreadnoughts and beat Vulkan in hand to hand. One even spoke grammatically correct High Gothic.

+The planet broke before the guard did. Some takeaways:

Faith is definetely separate from sorcery/psychic powers, as anti psychic fields weren't completely effective against a living saint.

Trazyn tried to pull some strings to prevent chaos from winning. His consolation prize for his troubles was a slightly damaged Creed.

+Massive warp rift from Cadia to Damocles split the galaxy in twain. Cicatrix Maledictum, astronomicon now obscured for most of the galaxy, Old Night returned to everyone outside of Terra for a few hours to centuries. Time anomalies fucking EVERYWHERE, when the initial dread passed all astropaths on Earth died from the bulk of distress calls.

+Belisarius Cawl was inserted into lore and retroactively was tasked with some interesting stuff, like bringing back hover tanks, armour marks VIII-X, creating more loyal and stable successors to the standard astartes. Also made some armour to heal Guillaman from his neck wound. Would have failed if Ynnari eldar girl hadn't rezzed him.

+Guillaman hates everything and everyone and because of his bitch as snake brother cursing him he can never feel joy in victory ever again or he goes down Horus's path. He's been playing triage like a Syrian doctor and the only person he's shown any respect for is Dante, who's ass he saved from the Tyranids.

+Dante also wants to die but ghost Sanguinius told him not yet. Named Warden of Imperium Nihilus, i.e. everything beyond the emperor's light.

+Primaris reinforced every single chapter, revived lost/presumed lost ones. Cawl wanted missing/heretic gene stock included, Guillaman said fuck no, left inconclusive but holy shit Sons of the Pheonix is pretty on the nose for Emperor's Children.

+Deathwatch got its own bunch of Primaris

+Tau made one giant push for new sphere of expansion, new engines. Punch hole in warp, they saw god as far as the other races considered the greater good. The Tau hate god. Genocided surviving auxiliaries in their new colonies.

Nothing ever will, it's just some community manager throwing his weight around, but if he ever did anything like what he says, GW would smack his shit so fast his head would spin. As soon as profits start dropping, heads roll in Nottingham.

Thank you for the summary. Are the Eldar and the Imperium sorta allies now? Did anything about the imperial guard change, in post cadia times? Any changes on the chaos side? Any more details about the squads? Anything new about the Grey knights, inquisition, SoBs or the imperial faith? Are there basically emporer based cleric spells now? 0

>Tau made one giant push for new sphere of expansion, new engines. Punch hole in warp, they saw god as far as the other races considered the greater good. The Tau hate god. Genocided surviving auxiliaries in their new colonies.

Only the Ynnari are allies with the Imperium. The rest of the Craftworlds are doing their own thing. I think the IG are more open to the whole "Chaos is a thing and it has been for some time. Don't fall to Chaos or you'll get *BLAMMED*" Nothing has changed on the Chaos side. Abbadon wants to hit Terra after Cadia, but eveyone else is just too fixated on fucking stuff up so he can't really continue the push. The Death Guard and the Ultramarines had their Plague War and the Thousand Sons continue to fuck with the Space Wolves. Meanwhile in Imperium Nilihus, Chaos runs rampant and shit happens every day. Lion El Johnson is actually alive/fully healed but still asleep. No changes to the Imperial faith so far. Probably going to see any changes in the next SoB codex

I wished they brought him back at the same time as Girlyman since he's the most opposed to Girlyman. Kinda like Morty and Magnus. Lion would see the whole codex thing and tell the Ultras to fuck off.

>Vulkan

He'd be the only NOBLEBRIGHT in the GRIMDARK. Would always buddy up with Gorilaman.

>Corvus

Wouldn't give a fuck. Would always try to go solo and then get bailed out by the Smurfs.

>Jaghatai

Wouldn't give a fuck, in a radical way. He'd be okay with Eldar as allies as long as he got hot-xeno ass. He'd make DEldar look like pussies and out-ork orks.Eventually he'd be stuck on some world just racing Speed Freaks, DE and any Marine who thought they could be fast. Meanwhile the Nids would be trying to eat the place and it would just add another hitch to the whole thing.

>Russ

Would laugh at Gorillaman. But he'd be too butthurt to do anything but fight the Thousand Sons. That's all he would do at this rate. Also the Inquisition would constantly berate him for being too "Khorne-like."

>Dorn

Would be 100% on board with the Codex and he'd probably spend most of his time fortifying the Imperium while Guile went to Nilihus and tried to fix shit there. Meaning Ol'Bobby wouldn't be doing his perfect job of being the Administration.

>Ferrus

If Ferrus came back to life some how, he'd probably make friend with Cawl. Berrate Gilly, then go and try to play Hang-Man with Fulgrim.

>Sang

Would make the IG more bold than ever. He'd probabbly get Fulgim out of his hole just to have a beauty contest. The Ecclesiarchy would have a collective orgasim and the BA would become 100% more badass.

Our best hope would be a half-dead/half-living Primarch so that they could rally the Legion of the Dammed( at will) so they could bully Chaos for eternity. Bonus point if the LotD actually gained members from fallen Astartes rather than just being the ~200 or so left space ghosts.

>Even managed to win when they only attacked me and not each other.I kind of feel really bad since they are both pretty new at the game. I even did an all ork vehicle speed freek list with a morkanaut to not be really meta. The space wolves player did not take enough anti vehicle items to really put a dent in my morkanaut, while the Eldar player got his warwalker and two wraithlords taken out by my scrapjet and Defftrike.

I just feel kind of bad since it was one of the guys' birthdays and he wanted to try out some of his new stuff.

And just to mix shit up, there might yet be a good shard of Magnus still wandering around out there which would cause all kinds of chaos when he reveals himself. In fact Tzeentch might just allow and encourage such a thing to fuck with both evil Magnus and the Imperium.

Other than the Ultras themselves, the Imperial Fists are the most orthodox when it comes to the Codex, with their successor chapters running the gamut from highly unorthodox (Black Templars) to a near Ward level of devotion, going beyond even what the Ultramarines are comfortable with. Only Russ, Vulkan, and Dorn were against splitting the legions, Dorn fell in line after the Iron Cage,

Just thinking, some of these designs would probably deserve updating given the, what, 8 or so years since they were penned. I mean, Ronery Wych at least, but now we've even got a kinda-sorta official Jean Steeler.

I wonder why no one tried to do anything with the ogryns back then. I think the only reference to female ogryn I've seen anywhere was that one that was mentioned to take interest in Jurgen in one of the Ciaphas Cain novels.

>"Damn, I need to get a praetor model. But the regular ones are too bland. I wish there was some kind of build your own praetor sets since the legion I play isn't gonna get a praetor model, unlike every one else."

I'd assume it was done mainly by popularity; or most recent to oldest. Since AL got them I'd say popularity, but BA got them since the next book is their book, so you gotta have as much BA shit out there when it drops. They did the same with Inferno and released SW and TS stuff. But really, I'm actually shocked they picked NL to get new models, I thought they were one of, if not, the least popular legions both fluff-wise and number of armies out there. Well, second to the White Scars

>I'm really glad to see what appears to be a trend of increasing representation for women in 40k. Age of Sigmar is in a decent spot, with generally mixed armies and now the Daughters of Khaine, but 40k though has been really limited. Sure there are fluff reasons strongly ingrained in Space Marines, so I don't see that changing, but it's great that women are appearing throughout many of the other factions!

>My girlfriend enjoys painting and asked me if there were any "girl armies" she could stat building, and I had to explain that her options were pretty much BDSM sex-demons and nuns with guns (also corsets). While those are both tongue-in-cheek options and I don't see them as a problem, it's still fantastic that we're starting to see mixed genders, with strong female characters being featured. This is one area that I feel Warmachine and Hordes have always had a leg up over 40k. Increased variety in choice and representation are more than welcome!

I want normies to die.

Also, sculpt is technically good but boring to look at it and pose is uninspired.

>Are they just going to blatantly ignore the eldar sculpts, harlequins, and the dark eldar?

Of course they are, because said races show the worst aspects of these "people" in a negative light, and changing any of said races to suit them would enrage fans of the series. Like with anything, these pawns have to leech off and corrupt something good and successful not to feel included, but out of indoctrinated spite.

I really like dreadnoughts of all shapes and sizes, though I really only have a Ven Dread and a Contemptor. I've considered buying a Leviathan in the past, maybe that should be my big project for the year. That or pick up a Primarch, even though I don't play Horus Heresy

I've always liked the old blood angel captains with gold muscle armour. They seemed to have changed this into the Sanguinary Guard for some reason, which I'm not too pleased about because it robs the captain of some of his distinctiveness.

Honestly, at first I thougt they were making a model for a commissar character they introduced in one of those kids books. Like "Oh look, its Commissar G. Aequalis! You know, the Young Teen Commissar who is trying to inspire his soldiers rather than shooting them?" Idon't know what would be worse, THAT being the real case or it being "female," and it not looking female

New update to The Heretical Index of V.A. Beau, your armoury book for all things weeb in the 41st millenium.

This version adds a few balance and formatting fixes, and also expands the armoury with content from Kill la Kill, Vanquish, Planet With and Symphogear. So now you can look like a Magical Girl while also fighting like one.

I would but there is literally NO 40k community in my area. At All. This whole thing is the FLGS trying to get it up off the ground, and get the few 40k players that do exist to start showing up, and since they all play Chaos/Imperium...

It wouldn't be so bad except Magnus' model has too many monstrous features, and Guilliman has too much decoration on his armor, so converting either of those into another Primarch to run with my own custom Mehrines chapter seems like an absolute headache.

They really could at that, back in WD years ago way back when KT was first showing up they printed rules regarding basically mooks on patrol that would perfectly suits the gangers as opposed to say, a team of elite Space Marines.

>There is a chapter of blood-thirsty psychopaths who are on a galactic journey to eat Heretic Burgers. Not only do they seek the burgers, but they must bring enough to slate the hunger of their Primarch who probably hasn't eaten one in ten-thousand years.

Or,

>A Chapter of Blood Angles who ravage entire worlds in the name of the Emperor. Not only do they kill everything, they eat everything as well. Terrified witnesses are left in a state of catatonia (if they manage to not get eaten). Meanwhile in the minds of those Marines, its a hunt for the Heretic Burgers their gene-father has requested.

Yea, boobs are a absolute necessity on female models, unless it's a japanese loli figure or something. At 28mm, if a model doesn't visibly have female proportions, it'll just look like some girly man. Take the bald girl with the chain-flamer in Black Fortress, no one knew that was supposed to be a female until the fluff book specified it. Some of the traitor guards there also have slightly thinner proportions than the others, but it's impossible to decide what they are, they could just be lanky guys.

If a humanoid miniature can't immediately make you understand what it is, there's a problem. And also, all NPC cucks needs to get their "representation" shoved down their ass and promptly thrown into the gas chamber. The ONLY valid reason to have a female warrior model is because you're a horny grognard that likes to look at painted plastic titties.

On the positive side, at least FW has shown they are REALLY willing to go to the extreme ends of representation and inclusion. Why, just look at this disabled genderfluid bodypositive transblob psyker, so brave and stunning!

>>My girlfriend enjoys painting and asked me if there were any "girl armies" she could stat building, and I had to explain that her options were pretty much BDSM sex-demons and nuns with guns (also corsets). While those are both tongue-in-cheek options and I don't see them as a problem, it's still fantastic that we're starting to see mixed genders, with strong female characters being featured.

In reality its okay. But they could've done a better job though? The pose is bearable although uninspiring. It is more dynamic than the typical Commissars. But they're not really supposed to be "Look at me! I'm the hero here!" kinda models. Inspiring, but not heroically inspiring. Now, we could have an argument over boob-plate and how realistically its not viable. but at the same time "she"'s flat as a board. Not even a slight tilt in the armor, nothing. Also, you'd think after thirty or so fucking years that GW would be better at sculpting female faces/heads.

More dynamic? It's practically identical to the last plastic guy though, she's just standing a little taller on the ruin. And considering you get that guy essentially for free in the start box, I don't really see why anyone would want to buy this unless it's for SJW signalling. If you wanted a cheesecake commissar, you'd already have a couple from WGE or somewhere else.

And it seems Sangy did have a scenic base. Definitely looks better like that but I'm still not convinced. They should've posed him so it looks like he's trying to kick the daemon while thrusting the spear more directly towards his neck. Then just lower the daemon and the main base a little and pose it so the daemon is trying to catch the kick in his hand or something, and it should be pretty stable.

I feel it's always so easy to forget that most larger spacecraft in 40k are akin to (not necessarily) small, self-contained cities - complete with entire populations who were born on it and will never put a foot outside of their "world" until they finally die.

That's not to speak about all the crazy shit that you can probably find in the deepest, darkest niches of a vessel - especially considering most of them are at least a couple of thousand years old, at any rate.

Yeah, a few writers always hint that there might be something in the more remote areas of ships. But they never go to find out or to even bother with it. Unlike space hulks which have to be explored and purged. It would be a pretty cool story for some IG or whatever to be on some ship and they have to go purify the whole thing.

The crew might talk about spirits and their own folkloric monsters, which is of course brushed off by the higher ranks as superstition. But maybe that shipment of live snakes for pharmaceuticals that disappeared three thousand years ago got into the cracks and evolved into something different through all those years of exposure to the warp, cosmic energies and the ship reactors' radiation?

You know what would be cool? Some pseudo X-Files style system where you are one of the ship's higher ranking naval officers or something and have to investigate rumors about yet another bloodsucker creature that allegedly swims around in the septic tanks of deck VI.

All while keeping information about this confidential because it could lead to mass panics among workers responsible for several semi-critical elements of the ship. And then, halfway into the mission, the captain announces you're doing a warp jump.

I had the exact same problem when I started and I'm not exactly the greatest but you have to practice and just get comfortable working with a brush. Don't get to ambitious, start with with a base shade and highlight, you can always revisit the model but get comfortable doing that until you're prepared to add new steps.

Take it easy, don't hold yourself up to a too-high standard. Forget the small details, forget edge-highlights, just take your time and get confident with the basics first. Have a shot of whisky beforehand, put on some classical music, get yourself nice and comfy and work out any tension in your muscles.

As an artfag, I find this hard to give advice for as I've always been drawing or painting since I was very young.

Practice. Don't try to paint a whole squad at once. Try 1 model and go for a simple paint scheme first. Master the basics, then go for more. Paint the base colour (of the power armour if it's a space marine) then use a wash to bring out the detail. A wash is a watered-down paint that collects in the recesses of the model. You can lay it on thick and not worry too much about splodges.

Your unsteady hand, if it isn't some kind of medical condition, should improve as you gain confidence.

Just keep practicing. Follow painting guides online if you want something more complicated.

Top leftand second from the bottom left are the only faces and haircuts I like. The one next to the probable nonwhite is almost acceptable but she looks a little off. Otherwise, I'll stick with the full helmets.

Are genestealer infected marines possible? Surely space hulk raids don't all end with only either the chapter in question getting wiped or successfully conquering. What about a chapter having to replenish their numbers because of a disastrous loss and inadvertently taking aspirants from a tainted population?

Most Librarians can tell if an Aspirant is less than 100% pure, even then, when it comes time to implant the necessary organs, any Apothecary worth his salt would know somethings amiss.

Space Marines don't reproduce, anyway I'm not sure if they "can't", I've heard some people say that Space Marines are sterile, others say that they're just hypno-indoctrinated not to think about getting laid

That makes sense. I wonder about some very desperate or insane renegade chapter though. Might they try to knowingly initiate 3rd or 4th gen hybrids as marines or maybe graft on limbs Fabius Bile style? Maybe with the help of a xeno loving heretek?

As someone who is just getting into the hobby, can anyone explain GWs pricing model for countries outside the UK. It seems like Australians and Burgers have to pay the highest prices, while Canadians pay less than both of them.

I think an anon said once that someone had researched the actual chinese companies that produce the plastic sprues for GW and the chinks said that it cost them like 5 cent per sprue. GW sells those sprues (2-3per box) for 40-60 dollars.

How absolutely lukewarm. Music is bland and upbeat synthetic with no spiritual sense to it. Animation is cheap and clunky. Kid holds no reverence for his task, not even whispering lingua technis while he works. Jokaero...honestly, the joke would've worked much better if it was eating a banana or something to show that it's not even thinking about what it's making.

...Come to that, what in the Warp is a Jokaero doing in the middle of an orthodox Forge World like Mars?

Thanks. As for the 1992 part, that's apparently on the plastic base and not the model itself - When he said on the base, I assumed he meant the crossbar that slots into the base, but this model doesn't actually have one.

It's not so much entire passages, just little bits of shit here and there. Plus, what he did with specific characters. Jessie Banda calls Meryn "Toxic" when he leaves her to die, and there are a significantly greater number of female guardsmen of various rank than in previous books. There's a female scion that does not act at all like an indoctrinated space commando, and more like a girl just out of high school. There's a stronk independent female general who's put in command of the palace when Von Voyitz goes to save Gaunt from a woe machine. There's some bitching about Verghast being Patriarchal and unaccepting of Merity for being a girl, even though that makes no fucking sense for the setting.

There's also shit he did with character arcs that have left me pissed off. Remember Dalin Criid? Guess what, he's a woe machine. All that character development, thrown out the window so that he can murder Gol Kolea and Gaunt can hack him to death with a sword. There could have been so much more done with that character, even if he was a woe machine, and Abnett just threw it all away over a continuity error.

The showdown with Sek wasn't good either. Instead of Sek showing up at the head of a vast warhost, or something thematic like that, Mkoll just sneaks aboard his private cruiser, makes him teleport away like a bitch, and jams a landmine down his throat to blow his head off. Anakwanar Sek, the badass right hand man of Guar that we've been building up since fucking Traitor General, and he just gets fucked blown up on a shitty little island somewhere.

There's also not anything I would really call a "grand battle". There's a lot of building clearing and firefights with insurgent cells, but nothing that I would consider a proper guard battle. The most tension I felt was when Yoncy turned into a woe machine and started killing the camp followers underneath the palace. That's probably the best part of the book, as there's a genuine sense of fear.

Hey, speaking of woe machines, How in the god damn fuck did Asphodel manage to sneak two of them into the Ghosts? When did he make the switch? Was it even him that did it? How did they know that the Ghosts would eventually wind of on Urdesh, near the saint? Why the fuck did the Saint not instantly known them for what they were, when she could sense Sek across the planet and was capable of calling to people across time and space? There's a passage that shows that symbols and icons of the Emperor could hurt the woe machines, even if it was more annoying that life threatening. Wouldn't this have come up way earlier? What the fuck was the point of having half an entire book focusing on Dalin if you were just going to throw him away in the worst manner possible? I feel like I should add that multiple characters and arcs connect to this character, and they're pretty much all pointless with the way Dalin died. If he had fought off the control of Sek, or even given his life killing Sek, that would have been a much better conclusion than what we got.

There's probably more shit to bitch about, I'm still digesting this book.

All cults have degree of ree will because otherwise they cant operate. Hell, some "organisms" even have personality while in hivemind and they are recreated over and over again after absorption.

Contrary to popular belief hivemind has nothing against individuality because individuals cant betray it and all of them work for hivefleet prosperity. Hivemind is used because its most efficient way in most cases.

Well, considering there is fluff in which some Cults actually attempt to fight the Tyranids after the honeymoon period is over and they become the main course, I would say that they have some autonomy from the Hive Mind

New ShadowSpear trailer have shown this. Maybe a new Primaris unit? It doesnt looks precisely bad, but for being a heavy weapons astarte, sure it have a tiny propulsor, that looks less than an imperial one, and more like a anime one. Also, the concept is solid, but why bother to put it to a devastator that should be deployed from a Drop pod, or a Thunderhawk already, so no need to give him agility? Propulsors work well on Assault & Inceptors suqads because they are melee squads in the first place, and fast skirmishers in the later. But to give it to a Big Devastator is not tha good, in my opinion, and breaks the Imperial Astartes doctrine.

I did some playtesting with the new custodes rules for some of the forgeworld models, and it seems all over the place. The telemon and galatus are pretty average now, and the telemon was hit pretty hard. The Aquillon terminators seem very good for what their point cost is, but the jump pack custodes seem pretty bad for their point cost. The jetbikes seem like a decent side grade to the regular bikes if you want more of a jack of all trades.

>Book starts off with a flashback to the Legio Solaria's founder Mohana Mankata VI. She's a female of a Knight House on the planet Procon. Because she's a woman she can't became a Knight. When the Great Crusade arrives Procon immediately joins the Imperium and holds a festival for the visiting delegation. Despite being banned from taking part in a horseback riding contest, she does anyway and wins.

I suppose /v/ would be more appropriate to ask but I fucking hate /v/ so I'll bring it up here.

Anyone played this shit? It has pretty decent graphics and for a point and click casualshit was fun at first but it very quickly showed it had no intention to break any [FREE TO PAY] stereotypes, its difficulty is scaling up non linearly making real money purchases seem necessary, plus it's full of bugs in places it really shouldn't, like daily rewards. Fucking windows store.

I know there are lots of hipsters playing the game under multiple levels of irony and passive aggressiveness but that level of political correctness in this specific franchise is so fucking counter-intuitive it can give a man a stroke. I blame the Tau.

>spent half the galaxy's natural history pimping up the materium against warp fuckery

>set the alarm and fall to sleep

>wake up after aeons

>some armless cripple dude has "intentionally" fucked up all the failsafes you spent over hundreds of millennia setting up and has effectively turned the galaxy into what all your long-winded efforts tried to prevent from becoming

The book and the overall lore makes it rather clear that serving as pit crew for a titan maniple is much much less desirable than being a pilot. As far as I am aware of AdMech lore, almost everyone is considered expendable labor except the top 1% of priests, so we can assume that being a titan repairman isn't considered very glorious.

If He wishes it so and decides to grace us with enough attractive and fertile spess big-breasted, slender-waisted and big-bottomed muhreens, then, by the Emperor, it shall be done. Otherwise, do not tempt fate.

I have never played the game. However, it has a lot of bullshit. First off, its only for phonesand Win10. There are ads in the game and you have to watch shit between playing. Loot crates are in it as well. Despite this, somehow, it still remains a decent game. You can even customize your knight. But you ==have== to look past the pay2win shit and ads and all the other fucking crap they shoved into it. If you have Facebook, there is something called "gameroom" or whatever the fuck that you can use to avoid the ads. Also, melta+gattling cannon = auto win for multiplayer. Use that to grind up for what I assume is better gear.

If you mean; "Screeching stronk wymin running around telling Space Marines to let gurls into their sexist club, while bench-pressing Primarii in order to earn more corn-rows while they denounce the Emperor in order to create a truly GENDER EQUAL society" then no.

So i'm playing some of the 40K RPG stuff and my character has fairly low int, but i've been trying to develop rhyming slang that fits into 40k for a while to make my charachter essentially just space chav that people can barely comprehend, here's a sample of some of the stuff i've got so far and some reasoning

Tau = Beef, (Beef Cow, omit cow)

Orks = Wine, (Wine cork)

Eldar = Freight, (Freight car)

Necrons = Knock(s), (Knock on [wood, i know this one is bad rhyming some of this shit is fucking hard])

I have some stuff for the chaos gods but i honestly forgot how i got to the conclusions, I think i wound up rhyming multiple languages at one point to get to a decent word, and now Bamboo means Khorne

The best one by far is Short for the mechanicus, because i rhymed that with "Short Bus"

Well, my character is from a feudal world so i'm having him use more fantasy esque words, so Cliff = Psyker because Cliffs Edge = Hedge (wizard), Heretic = salt through Salt Lick, and mutant is Rubber, because of Rubber plant, the warp is steel, more through the word immaterium= Steel Drum. some more mundane stuff is spine=sword through spinal cord, rat=mace, through rat race.

What >>410947 said, but also, you're falling prey to world blindness; the 40k universe doesn't have "cows" it has grox or ambulls. It doesn't have "wine" it has amasec. Obviously, you and your group may not be as autistic about lore-correctness as I am, but it's worth thinking about what objects populated your character's environment rather than directly translating from your own experiences. Try coming up with some sayings that your character may have been familiar with, or his own class may have bastardized from the aristos and made their own, the way slang normally evolves.

This does make things easier, if you think about it. You don't have to try to fit existing sayings and phrases to 40k stuff; you have free reign to create your own and make things even more incomprehensible, because you'd be adapting completely new phrases into cryptic forms. But (and this is just my opinion) try to keep some connection between the slang and thing it refers to; the best rhyming slang hints at the source that originally spawned it. For example, "Bread and honey" for money, or "trouble and strife" for wife.

Unrelated to that, is anyone planning to read that Honourbound novel coming out tomorrow? I haven't actually kept up with any Black Library releases since the end of the Ciaphas Cain novels, so I don't know if this Rachel person is any good. Is there anywhere to read the previous short stories in that character's arc?

I still don't understand how anybody thought this was a good idea. It's like sombody stole the formula from the DnD or Conan the Adventurer cartoons from the 80s and applied to a source material where it makes even less sense.

That might be the reason they're selling. I don't think anyone who plays or is even interested in 40k or Warhammer in general should buy these books. If they sell well, then they might make more. The only good that has come from them is the mockery of them and the fan art regarding the characters. Also, I don't think anyone has uploaded them. Or at least in the place I checked.

it's more about subverting the setting i'd say. slaanesh being all about degeneracy but portrayed as a negative, the Imperium being a xenophopic religious totalitarian government, human supremacist ideology, all the aliens being portrayed as just enemies or at best temporary allies of convenience.... all this deeply conflicts with mainstream centre-left ideology. but the way it works is they won't just leave it alone, they have to poz it. anything that isn't them has to be targeted.

the rot hasn't extended far into 40k yet but it's definitely there and it's only a matter of time til you get female or tranny or gay space marines allying with orks or tau or space tomb kings to fight the evil white cis male fascists who want to perpetuate the nazi grimdark conflict of the fascist Emperor who was actually the villain all along - TWEEEEST, etc etc. I'm being hyperbolic, but worse has been done to other canons.

I've said it before and i'll say it again, this is GW marketing to kids. Every fucking brat that wanders into a GW store gets handed a preview copy of this dreck Along with the complimentary "First taste is free" Space Marine/Stormcast

Oh, I disagree, this is fucking gold. I love soulless corporate bullshit; it's the greatest thing in the world to mock. At no point is the internet brighter than when it illuminates the misaimed, painfully idiotic, and poorly planned blunders of out-of-touch corporations.

In fact, I just visited the website and it's great. They can't say shit about the universe; it's like watching a lad around his mother.

>"Life in the 41st Millennium is hard."

>They can't use Chaos or xenos, so everyone is fighting for Order or protecting the Imperium against Evil.

>"Thirteen-year-old Talen ran away from home to avoid being enlisted in the military"

Talen is a traitorous cur and any loyal citizen of the Imperium would report him for reeducation.

>"Sharing her mum's hatred of weaponry, Zelia believes that the best way to overcome fear is to learn about the universe."

Can't wait till she learns about the Tyranids. Or the Orks. Or, well, basically anyone.

>"A talented inventor, eleven-year-old Mekki created the special robotic frame that supports his paralysed arm."

Eleven-year-old Mekki is a MUTANT and a HERETEK that will lead us down the PATH OF DAMNATION!

Reading the free extract of the zeroth book in the series now, but this is great so far.

It can varry by author. I've read books where they practically zip across the galaxy within a few weeks or months at most (ship time, not real-space time). Six years sounds rather slow and yeah we'd assume it was six years for the crew and X for real space.

Usually less time goes on the ship because its much more fucking convinient than to have characters spends 90% of adventure doing fucking nothing.

And it works the same way in real universe. The faster you go the slower time goes for you.

On related note everyone in galaxy uses his own clock now so its not that relevant now. Which is funny because its again closer to real world in terms that Imperium would not be able to synchronize clocks in a galaxy using its current technology and administration..

Perception of time. There is not such thing as normal speed of time. Unless phenomena occurs and they experience speedup or slowdown because of warp fuckery. Minutes feel like days, days feel like minutes.

It's fairly canon that augmetics especially bionics are always administrated by techpriests simply because they consider proof of their creed (flesh is weak) and therefore replacing faulty fleshy parts with metal ones is a solemn act of devotion to the Omnissiah.

Having one that wasn't made, blessed and installed by a tech priest is definitely tech heresy and one to hide his own mutation is normal heresy...

That's not all that's in his bio, just the short. He's an "inventor" that's "happiest when tinkering with technology" and who has created "servo sprites, a swarm of tiny robot helpers" which sound damn close to Abominable Intelligences.

Version 1.8, the Cavalry and Children Update, is primarily an expansion of Only War's cavalry rules, to allow for the training and upgrading of warbeasts over time. It also includes rules for horse armour, the new Old Guard Advanced Speciality so you can literally play a Grognard, child soldier rules, and a ton of balance fixes.

My other vaguely on-the-go projects are The Heretical Museum of V.A. Beau, which is an armoury book about weebshit, that I already posted at >>405298 and M.A.C.H, my unfinished-but-playable OW expansion about trauma surgeons.

Esha's changing body shape made her uncomfortable. The straps had to be adapted to fit around her swelling belly. The worst of it was the pressure around her lower abdomen, most of it which seemed to press into her bladder. Esha had never used the ablution pads built into her combat suit. She preferred to wait rather than soak herself in her own piss, but if this kept up she was going to have to use it. Almost as bad as the need to pee was the dull ache around her coccyx. No matter how she sat, it twinged. No position was comfortable for longer than ten minutes. Only another twelve weeks, she thought. Then it'll be done. Leaning forwards in her command harness took some of the pressure off her back, but it put her at a strange angle that would have her legs cramping soon, and the restraint straps cut into her shoulders. She ignored it, trying to achieve a deeper bond with her Titan so she could block out the discomfort completely.

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For five minutes, they continued their slow methodical path of destruction. A collective scream rose from Biphex, loud enough for Esha to hear through the Warhound's hull. Shortly after that, Legio Vulpa began to shoot. Esha rested her hand protectively on her belly. The child within turned over, pushing against her palm.

Let me guess, stronk wymon precept gives birth while blowing up some traitor titan? Either that or she falls in love with some random tech-adept but she ditches him for her lesbian lover who also happens to be a precet?

That is popular misconception. You can but it takes fucking forever to approve. And in most cases new uses of old technology is perfectly fine. See these lasgans and ducktape? Now I invented myself twin-linked lasgan. Hovever thare are plenty of taboo subjects and abominable Intelligence is a fucking big one. You will never be able to get out of this one, after this your forge world may expect a fucking inquisition inspection from top to bottom.

Another example of taboo would be a centralized Hive weapon control system which allows Hive to use all defences controlled from a single room. Doing something like this is just inviting destruction of a Hive. Making something like this will reward you with public execution, when shit hits the fan.

Or inventing new power source for lasgans. Because old powersource is fucking reliable as fuck and new one will need testing for more than a thousand years so implementing it would be nigh impossible, even if there is nothing wrong with it. And in most cases old tech is top of the line anyway. Doing something like this may reward you a promotion if you are extremely lucky, or most likely you can sell improved powerpacks to guards for some rare parts. Unless it explodes and in that case you just need to pretend that you have nothing to do with it

I don't think it'd be so amazing as to override the basic hormonal functions of a pregnant woman, and on top of that, wrangling a Titan at the same time as being pregnant would be a horribly shit idea, since the machine spirit would probably be very upset that its master was so distracted and seemingly disoriented by the babby

Specificity and detail are the calling card of the fetishist, and this shit definitely reads like the wank material of a disgusting sack of shit whose mind is painfully hyperfocused on the idea of pregnant women soiling themselves.

To be fair while it sounds retarded, Titans are amazing constructs with very advanced systems and intellegence, they just might work as life support system for princepts.

>their master

Its not really master-servant, its warmaching-man who points it into right direction.

Except Titans are warmachines, their intellegence is made to destroy, they would just abort the baby because it causes too many problems with piloting the thing and warmachine intellegence of titan directly influences princepts, so she would gladly abort the baby in the middle of the battle. Unless she is just a decoy and real princepts is hiding somewhere. And while it work like life support, it might also drain princepts Lawnmower Man style. So there are not a single goddamn reason to have pregnant female princepts, no matter how good she is at horse riding.

And why the fuck this absurd even exist. I mean, in wh40k universe woman can be anything except space marine and high lord of terra(because these fucks are going to outlive everyone). That is fucking it, everything else is fair game for a woman. But no, we gotta have a fucking pregnant woman piloting a titan, because slaneesh is not degenerate enough for us.

They have few faction of pure degeneracy! Why the fuck they try to push it elsewhere!

There have been a few major Knight Titan homebrews by other people, but I don't know much about them in any particular detail, and I feel like a homebrew expansion of a homebrew expansion is getting a bit too niche.

On the subject. How much laxity there's on using 2nd millennium tech and slightly upgrading it towards 41st mil standards? Orks have what's a essentially a MiG-15 and IMO, an A-10 would fit the setting perfectly. Is it fluff-respecting to make the Mechanicus produce them with contemporary modifications?

The Imperium doesn't really know what "2nd Millennium" means. A lot of tech boils down to what was crapped out of an STC. And if you make one, you're either a heretic or the next Fabricator General of Mars. But, at the same time, there are examples of old, old shit being "revamped" and brought out. Like the shitty WW2 era tanks that the Blood Pact used. There are also the few Baneblade/Leman Russ variants that went from; "Hey, you can't do that! Tech Heresy! Tech Heresy!" to; "Oh, you want that type? Alright." Just because the fluff doesn't specifically call the Avenger Strike Fighter a remake of the A-10 Warthog, doesn't mean that its the same thing. Except switch out the GAU-8 for a Avenger Bolt Cannon.

most of the solid ballistic weapons that aren't bolters (Autoguns, etc) are basically just 21st century tech that's been around, a heavy autocannon is essentially just an M2 machine gun, Autoguns can range from XM rifles and prototype fish guns to an AK-47s and M16s, regular ass pistols are any variety of fucking anything, etc.

Sisters as far as I can remember have lower strength and toughness than marines (regular, not primaris). They also lack the And They Shall Know No Fear rule. I'm not sure whether their WS/BS was lower.

In the fluff, Sisters totally lack all the special organs and implants that make Astartes superhuman, because they don't work on women. A Sister is just an ordinary human woman in power armour with a bolter, who has the special Imperium magic called Faith which allows them to do wacky stuff which is clearly not chaotic in any way.

The origin of Sisters is that the Imperium's church, the Ecclesiarchy, is forbidden from having "men under arms", so instead they have women.

In many cases its not 21st tech, it just looks like it. Imagine if you have to design a land transport. You will come up with wheels and usual truck design sooner or later. Imagine applying that to a plane, they dont look like this at random, they look like this because its most efficient forms.

New Abaddon model, comes with three different heads and an optional cape. Not sure how I feel about him, like the options for different heads, though. There's also this new CSM with a gatling weapon of some sort, not sure what it's supposed to be, but I like it. Reposted with the actual gatling guy.

I don't like how they changed his trophy rack from 2 rows on each shoulder to 1 row across his back.

They also changed the arrangement of the ammo feed on the Talon - does he have to fire it upside down now? Otherwise the ammo would block the ejector. Original had the positions of ammo feed and ejector reversed.

I doubt they're resizing everything. Unless they are, then they better explain why/how. Plus the next boxed set is going to have a microdex, so we get to see how restrictive these csm will be. Its called "Daemonkin," yet there are only two possesed marines and one daemon engine. You'd think Daemonkin would mean lots of possesed marines and other half-demon entities but I guess not?

Well, theres the Primaris Marines, they're bigger than regular Marines. There's the Grey Knights, and 1k Sons like >>412534 said. Don't forget the Death Guard either. SM mainly boils down to color and accessories you put on them. Space Wolves stand out because of all the viking and wolf stuff you can give them. Next up would be Dark angles, lots of robes and hoods etc. Those are the only two chapters that stand out them most. Blood Angles stand out, a little bit, but only if your models are all wearing the muscle armor. Not to mention the fact that if your playing a SM chapter that has its own codex, then you get to field different units than other SM chapters. If you could manage to make your entire army look like the Legion of the Damned, you'd get a lot of respect. But thats more of a super natural looking army. If you like the mechanicus, and you really wants to play SM, then find or make as much Iron Hands stuff as you can. Bionics, exposed machinery, etc. are their calling card.

Presumably they don't have a codex yet because the game switched to a newer edition last year and they haven't gotten around to it? GW does that every so often to keep the money flowing in (and make balance changes I suppose). I think the main rulebook has some basic rules for them? Or they're amalgamated into a big "Aliens" rulebook or something. It's been a while since I played, so I don't know how they organize things any more.

Related, is there any reliable info on when the new plastic sisters and dex are going to drop? I was thinking of getting back in with the Sororitas, assuming they weren't flaming hot garbage.

>1d4chan retards saying is cool that this now looks & works like modern USA soldiers instead of the Knight/Warrior looks of before, even tough Astartes ARE Knights in SPEESSS, and most of the astartes arent Space Wolves or World Eaters that just charge dumbly into battle, or have to be melee centric.

>Also, did GW & the people forget about the Militarum Tempestus?

Miniatures arent precisely ugly or even bad, but as many Primaris stuff, it feels odd & over designed. At least infiltrators are cool and a good addition.

GW stuff was always edging towards being overdesigned, but previously it mostly kept to the more special models - named characters and pewter. I guess they're having a devil of a time keeping ahead of the Chinese bootleggers, so they have to keep making the models more and more complex. This is just unfortunate, though; I can't imagine someone new to the hobby not being intimidated when asked to paint something like that.

I had a quick question about the authority of each of the primary factions of inquisitors. A lot of them feel like they have conflicting jurisdiction, and I am assuming this is the point. Is this correct?

Hereticus oversees witches, psykers, chaos cults, cults worshipping things other than the emperor or heretical imperial cults, and also serious criminals/traders who are impeding the imperium in some great way. Genestealer cults would then be in their jurisdiction, but xenos inquisitors would also have a great reason to pursue these cults too, right? Ordo Malleus inquisitors would also see benefit for going after rogue psykers and cults before they could summon a demon too for obvious reasons, so they sometimes would step into some ordo hereticus activities.

With xenos inqusitors, they would have to deal with alien technology that uses the warp and ancient psychic artifacts. Then there are cults who worship aliens and their technology.

No. The ard case upgrade can't come offthe gunwagon or the rollawagon. Gunwagons are also pretty bad choices for their point cost. Use a normal battlewagon with a deffrolla and maybe 4 big shootas. Battlewagons are not good at shooting themselves, so rely on what is inside and treat it as a carriage.

The melee rollawagon is another option for units that do not need to shoot much. The main examples being nobz and meganobz with killsaws.

How interesting can Mortarion be as a character if his defining character trait is "consistently pissed off/frustrated" first at having his kill stolen by the emperor, then at the khan trolling him throughout most of the heresy, then at Typhus for fucking everything up for him and his legion. Then being in a constant love/hate relationship with his patron deity.

Its an Ogryn and a Traitor "Commissar." for blackstone fortress. Remember; the traitor guard for the base game are practically carbon-copies of Cultists and you can only have 14 in a 40k game. Not 14 squads, 14 models with no customization and very, very little synergy with other chaos forces. This guy, and no doubt his body guard, will be just as restricted as the other blackstone fortress guardsmen. I'm sorry, but its probably not going to be enough for R&H.

Its kinda cool. I wish if they went the whole "demon-engine as a mount" thing, they'd do a flavor for each god then maybe an extra on top of it all? It'd be cool if the Dark mech robe he has on is a nod to possible future dark mech. forces.

Trisdekanon here, back again with an update to my nuclear warfare book, Imperial Atomica. As always, this is a system-agnostic sourcebook for running nuclear combat and postnuclear survival.

Version 1.1 is mostly quality-of-life fixes, aiming to polish and rebalance some of the stuff I missed in version 1.1. It also includes a bunch of new gear, several new vehicles, a ton more art, and many other things besides.

I was gonna post this but as a new thread. Not only are we getting a new CSM box, a new Abby, a new HQ, but we're also getting a new dex with the new shit included! Plus lesser chaos forces get rules now. And the new CSM are compatible with older spurs for CSM and SMLooks like i bought to early in for HH, should've waited for now extra heresy legionaries